Jan van den Berg

Tag: games

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Red Dead Redemption 2

It's been over a week since I 'finished' the most anticipated game of 2018 (or maybe even of the last five years); Red Dead Redemption 2. I say finished in quotes, because I clocked in around 50 hours...

arthur-morgan, dutch-van-der-linde, games, john-marston, rdr2, red-dead-redemption

Super Mario Odyssey

When the first trailer for Super Mario Odyssey came out it underscored the magic all Mario games seem to share. Because my four and five year old, who have no prior sentimental knowledge of Mario, mad...

games, mario, nintendo, super-mario-odyssey, switch

Best of 2016

Best of lists signify another year is coming to a close. People feel a need to sort and order things to make room for what is to come. Or something like that. So here is an assorted list of best new t...

books, games, general, music, podcasts, tech

My January timeline

I've always loved timelines. Visually seeing where things are in time resonates pretty strongly with me. This love goes back to my earliest memories of the dentists' office where a huge year round cal...

books, games, movies, podcasts

Masters of Doom

On my last vacation I finally got around to reading Masters of Doom by David Kushner. This book from 2003 keeps popping up every now and again and people always rave about it. I put it on my Amazon wi...

books, games, tech

The Minecraft timeline

The story of Minecraft sounds like a great movie script. Notch as the protagonist genius programmer, who, from an underdog (indie) position, single handedly changed the game industry by just doing wha...

games, tech

One year with the PS3

This month marks one year of me owning a Playstation 3. What started out as a quest for an 'easy' Netflix device, ended in getting a PS3. Maybe it seems I am a bit late to the game, because the PS4 is...

games